MEPs give reshuffled commission the green light
The new team has promised to get down to business straight away, three weeks after Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso was forced to reshuffle his team, and fire two of them - the first time the European Parliament had exercised such power.
Mr Barroso was forced to ask Italy to replace Rocco Buttiglione, who made discriminatory statements about homosexuals and women. MEPs had threatened to reject the entire Commission unless Mr Buttiglione was replaced.
